An Indian street food chain, which is enjoying record trading, has its sights set on Nottingham. Mowgli is preparing to accelerate expansion plans after sales in December surged.

The buzzing restaurant chain's menu comprises entirely of fresh and healthy dishes based on the founder's family recipes. Mowgli was founded in Liverpool in 2014 by barrister, food writer and Indian cookery teacher Nisha Katona, who likens the experience of visiting her restaurants to dining at her grandmother's stove in Varanasi, a city on the banks of the Ganges in Northern India.

Mowgli's dishes are intensely flavoured and colourful - and served in tiffin tins

Mowgli currently operates two sites in Liverpool, one in Manchester’s Corn Exchange and opened a fourth restaurant in Birmingham Grand Central in late 2017.

All four are outperforming expectations and trading last December rose by 11.5 percent compared to the same period in 2016.

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Nisha said: Nottingham is a vibrant and cosmopolitan city with a great food and drink sector. We hope diners will love Mowgli's passion for healthy, fresh Indian food."

Mowgli specialises in street food and Indian home-cooking

She added: "Mowgli is all about the fresh, light zing of an Indian home kitchen. The menu is entirely comprised of dishes from my family’s recipes - so this is how it tastes to dine at my grandmother's Varanasi stove.

Nisha Katona, right, with TV star Stacey Solomon (Image: Ian Jones)

“I take curry virgin chefs on principle and teach them one-on-one in the ancient Hindu culinary philosophy. It is utterly humbling that Mowgli has found a place in the heart of the nation.”

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